Blocks and Kids

Pashto phrases are built with blocks 🧱 and kids 👶. It's important to know what these parts are and how they fit together.

Blocks

Blocks are units of speech like NPs, APs or verbs, etc.

Wherever you see an example phrase with a you can click it to see the blocks that make up the phrase. Try clicking the to see the blocks that make up the examples below.

You will see a bunch of different blocks. Don't worry about learning what they all are, but if you want here's a complete list:

The Kids' Section

In Pashto there are a bunch of little particles that we will call kids. (به - ba, دې - de, یې - ye etc.) All of these have to go in the kid's section.

The kids' section is always after the first block.

Click on the on the following examples to see where the kids' section lies.

Here are the kids go in the kids' section, and they always line up in this order.

• The emphatic خو - kho particle

• The به - ba particle

• The jussive دې - de (may)

• Mini-pronouns:

• مې - me (1st pers sing)
• دې - de (2nd pers sing)
• مو - mU (1st/2nd pers plur)
• یې - ye (3rd pers)
• هم - hUm (also/too)

Mini-pronouns will always line up in 1st, 2rd, 3rd person order.

Note: You'll also see خو - kho (but/however) as a connector or هم - hUm (also/too) outsite of the kids' section. But all the other kids have to stay in the kids' section always!

Connectors

Phrases are connected using conjuctions like:

• او - aw (and)
• چې - che (that)
• خو - kho (but/however)

These connectors do not count as blocks. The kids' section will always come after the first block.

Phrases also might start with little directional words like:

• راته - raa-ta (to me/us)
• درته - dăr-ta (to you)
• ورته - wăr-ta (to him/her/them/it)
• راپسې - raa-pase (after me/us)
• درپسې - dăr-pase (after you)
• ورپسې - wăr-pase (after you)

These these are often treated as connectors, but they can be blocks or connectors, depending on how they are used.